There’s a lot of things going on, but one which can’t be ignored is the “Holocaust Industry.” As Finkelstein laid out in his book with that title, Israel and Zionists worldwide rely on the concept of the Nazi Holocaust being “unprecedented,” “unique,” “the worst ever and that ever will be.”
For them it’s seen as a “watering down” (or whatever) of the Holocaust if something else is called genocide or a holocaust (small h).
Zionists rely on the narrative that Jewish people are the original victims of human history. That Jews will always be the victims. They are victims simply by virtue of their existence as Jews in the world. This is proven by the Nazi Holocaust, one of the worst human rights atrocities ever perpetrated, which no sane person would ever deny.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of an apartheid state in the MENA region doing a genocide and ethnic cleansing. Yet it is constantly deployed as an excuse to allow “Jewish people” (meaning Jewish Israelis) to do this genocide. Zionists desperately want the genocide to not be called such because normal people might begin asking why it is that Jews in Europe were victims, but Palestinians in Gaza are somehow deserving of their fates.
Anyway, I will say in my opinion, fwiw, the term genocide is almost pointless. I understand why it is exists. I’ve read and heard the history a million times. I just find it especially stupid that people will quibble over what is or isn’t genocide when the actual problem at the root goes unquestioned usually. Did one group of people mass murder civilians in another group? They’re tied up in the labels and totally ignoring that it doesn’t matter what you call it at the end of the day.
For the record, I mostly blame Zionists and other fascist ideologies of the west for the “weaponization” of the word genocide. Ie only using it against the Nazis (first) and since then only against mostly African nations and I guess Russia now (which is laughable for many reasons but outside the scope of this comment). Regardless of the original intent of the word, it’s now just become an additional cudgel to use against non-western nations. But when the west does it… “it’s a lesser crime. Not even a crime! Definitely not murder. All those kids deserved it!”
They use similar terms when talking about the Soviet Union and CPC. It’s a thought terminating cliché. “Mao killed 100 million people! It was a genocide against his own people!”
These same people then can’t explain how Mao killed 100 million people. Like we know how the Nazis carried out the Holocaust. They primarily used gas chambers and then ovens to cremate the bodies. Others were worked to death. A lot of people were just tortured, shot, hanged, or stabbed.
But when talking about the Four Pests Campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Chinese Civil War, the Warlord Era in general, the Gang of Four, and the Deng reforms? Silence. They don’t even know what these words are. Somehow, 100 million people just did that. Mao looked at the grain and it spontaneously combusted, then the army I guess shot anyone who didn’t clap for this amazing magic trick.
Then, if you bring any of this up, they look at you with a blank expression before accusing you of Holocaust denial because you say “Yeah, maybe those 100 million landlords, Japanese collaborators, and fascists following Chiang Kai-shek deserved it.”
There’s a lot of things going on, but one which can’t be ignored is the “Holocaust Industry.” As Finkelstein laid out in his book with that title, Israel and Zionists worldwide rely on the concept of the Nazi Holocaust being “unprecedented,” “unique,” “the worst ever and that ever will be.”
For them it’s seen as a “watering down” (or whatever) of the Holocaust if something else is called genocide or a holocaust (small h).
Zionists rely on the narrative that Jewish people are the original victims of human history. That Jews will always be the victims. They are victims simply by virtue of their existence as Jews in the world. This is proven by the Nazi Holocaust, one of the worst human rights atrocities ever perpetrated, which no sane person would ever deny.
That has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of an apartheid state in the MENA region doing a genocide and ethnic cleansing. Yet it is constantly deployed as an excuse to allow “Jewish people” (meaning Jewish Israelis) to do this genocide. Zionists desperately want the genocide to not be called such because normal people might begin asking why it is that Jews in Europe were victims, but Palestinians in Gaza are somehow deserving of their fates.
Anyway, I will say in my opinion, fwiw, the term genocide is almost pointless. I understand why it is exists. I’ve read and heard the history a million times. I just find it especially stupid that people will quibble over what is or isn’t genocide when the actual problem at the root goes unquestioned usually. Did one group of people mass murder civilians in another group? They’re tied up in the labels and totally ignoring that it doesn’t matter what you call it at the end of the day.
For the record, I mostly blame Zionists and other fascist ideologies of the west for the “weaponization” of the word genocide. Ie only using it against the Nazis (first) and since then only against mostly African nations and I guess Russia now (which is laughable for many reasons but outside the scope of this comment). Regardless of the original intent of the word, it’s now just become an additional cudgel to use against non-western nations. But when the west does it… “it’s a lesser crime. Not even a crime! Definitely not murder. All those kids deserved it!”
They use similar terms when talking about the Soviet Union and CPC. It’s a thought terminating cliché. “Mao killed 100 million people! It was a genocide against his own people!”
These same people then can’t explain how Mao killed 100 million people. Like we know how the Nazis carried out the Holocaust. They primarily used gas chambers and then ovens to cremate the bodies. Others were worked to death. A lot of people were just tortured, shot, hanged, or stabbed.
But when talking about the Four Pests Campaign, Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, Chinese Civil War, the Warlord Era in general, the Gang of Four, and the Deng reforms? Silence. They don’t even know what these words are. Somehow, 100 million people just did that. Mao looked at the grain and it spontaneously combusted, then the army I guess shot anyone who didn’t clap for this amazing magic trick.
Then, if you bring any of this up, they look at you with a blank expression before accusing you of Holocaust denial because you say “Yeah, maybe those 100 million landlords, Japanese collaborators, and fascists following Chiang Kai-shek deserved it.”